Jim and John, would you give some thought to the idea of experimenting with a couple of conservative college students as interns? Get them from likely places by advertising for any who live in SoCal but attend Hillsdale College, or are members of Leadership Institute or the like. Check 'em out and give them limited duties, even online instead of on site, to see if it works out. If it did work out, over the next few semesters you might be able to offer to be an official internship site and use grunt labor to tackle some drone tasks like system testing or your aforementioned archives scrubbing.
I think Jim would likely prefer to go—if at all—
with sons/daughters of long time FREEPERS he has a substantial personal relationship with.
I read him as a well above average private person about a lot of things . . . while transparent on some others.